Legislative Updates

House Rep Tommy Pope gives a legislative update on current progress in issues such as worker’s comp for officers with PTSD, the concealed/carry bill and the […]

The General Assembly returned to Columbia this week for the second half of our two-year term. Amid a typically slow first week on the floor, we made significant progress on a notable Republican Caucus agenda item. After more than a decade of effort by the House Republican majority, our state is once again on the verge of the biggest streamlining of state government in nearly three decades. We have approved this legislation five times in the past seven years, and other versions of it have been in the legislative pipeline since 2000. A House-Senate Conference Committee signed off on a “Department of Administration” bill this week that moves the vast majority of the administrative functions of state government – human resources, information technology, state vehicles, and “general services” – under the control of the Governor for the first time.

House Rep Tommy Pope checks in before Wednesday’s session, touching on a bill headed to the governor’s desk and the ongoing judicial race.

There was lots of activity in the state House this week as we advanced two major pieces of legislation and heard from the Governor in her […]